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July 2009
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Lalgarh’s Battle for Dignity and Justice
A concerted paramilitary campaign is now underway in Lalgarh and surrounding areas in the tribal-dominated western region of West Bengal bordering Jharkhand and Orissa, ostensibly to flush out Maoists and... (read full text)
Verdict 2009 and the Left: Key Issues and the Road Ahead
Five years ago, the 14th Lok Sabha had witnessed the largest ever presence of Left parliamentarians. Along with the defeat of the NDA, the arrival of the Left as a... (read full text)
Manmohan Government’s Second Term: Early Signals and New Rhetoric
President Pratibha Patil’s address to the joint session of the two houses of Parliament has outlined the priorities and direction of the second term of the UPA government. While the... (read full text)
Revisiting the Women’s Reservation Debate
Once again, the debate over Women’s Reservation Bill has resurfaced, in the wake of the President’s speech promising to enact 33% quota for women in assemblies and parliament as well... (read full text)
Crackdown on Struggles of the Rural Poor in Punjab
Soon after the Lok Sabha elections, the Akali-BJP Government of Punjab has unleashed an all-out offensive on the rural poor in Punjab, and on the CPI(ML) which was leading their... (read full text)
Agricultural Labourers in Punjab: Struggling for Survival
There have been many studies of the situation of agricultural labourers and dalit rural poor in Punjab. In this section, we discuss some of the relevant aspects of dalit agricultural... (read full text)
Protests against Punjab Crackdown
The CPI(ML) Delhi State unit and AICCTU held a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar on May 25 to demand the unconditional release of all arrested leaders and workers, which submitted... (read full text)
Policy Offensive on Higher Education
Soon after the re-election of the Manmohan Singh government, the corporate media offered a slew of policy recommendations for its second tenure. Foremost among these have been impatient demands for... (read full text)
Rosy Hype of Globalisation vs Realities of Recession and Racism
The continuing spate of attacks and violence against Indians and Indian students in particular in Australia has once again exploded the much touted myth that globalisation promotes and respects pluralism... (read full text)
Indian students in Australia confront racist attacks
(James Crafti, a student at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, reports on the racist attacks and the Indian protests). Sravan Kumar Theerthala, a 25-year-old Indian student studying in Melbourne, Australia, was... (read full text)
The Case of Pakistani students in Britain
(A report from the Justice from the North West 10 Campaign, London.) In early April, the British media reported a remarkable ‘blunder’ on part of the British police. A top... (read full text)
Cyclone Calamity in West Bengal
Normal life in the Sunderbans has been totally paralyzed, it being the worst-hit by the Cyclone Aila. Even thirty days after the Aila devastation in this delta there is no... (read full text)
People’s Health’ Seminar in Kolkata
Dr. Binayak Sen and Dr. Ilina Sen recently visited Kolkata responding to an initiative taken by People’s Health. They addressed the Calcutta press at Calcutta Press Club on 29th May... (read full text)
AIALA Convention in Dharmapuri ### Pricol Workers on Indefinite Fast
AIALA Convention in Dharmapuri A Convention demanding 2 acres land, 5 cents home-stead land, 200 days work and Rs.200/day wage in NREGA was held by All India Agricultural Labourers’ Association... (read full text)
Reports from Chhatishgarh
CPI(ML) and the Safai Kamgar Union (sanitary workers’ union, affiliated to the AICCTU) jointly held a dharna at the Commissioner’s office in Bhilai on 6th June with several demands pertaining... (read full text)
The Changing Facade of US Imperialism
Barrack Hussein Obama stoops – well, only a little bit – to conquer. His carefully prepared and brilliantly presented speech at the Islamic University of Cairo contained quotations from the... (read full text)
Developments in West Asia
The history of the West Asia for over a century is one long history of how colonial and imperialist powers, both old and new, have arrogantly plundered, looted, dismembered, manipulated... (read full text)
Being Kamala
(Eunice de Souza, poet, literary critic and Kamala Das’ contemporary, writes of the “special debt of gratitude” that women writers owe Kamala Das. This article is reprinted with the permission... (read full text)
Habib Tanveer
Habib Tanveer, the doyen of Indian theatre breathed his last on June 8, 2009. He was not only a theatre personality, but an organic cultural personality; one of the greatest... (read full text)
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